Goodreads asked Linda Egenes:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Linda Egenes I start typing in quotes or research or something that is easy to do but gets my fingers moving. I think of my dad, an engineer with 21 patents, who advised his protégés: "Just put something down on paper." Usually the act of writing itself leads to the flow of ideas spilling through my fingers. Also, to be honest, since I started a regular meditation practice in 1972, I have rarely had writer's block. Before that, I was plagued by indecision, procrastination and lack of confidence. Regular meditation (in my case, the Transcendental Meditation technique) made those things recede and the magic of writing takes center stage.

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